Sondre Lerche

I like you too much
After too little time
I hold back my heart's crazy rambling
The fear that I should overwhelm your smile
Frightens the spiders inside me

Oh this could be magic
After all, after all

You daren't define which has happened to us
Well, I've had a name for it for some time
You try to find what it is that you feel
I long to tell you so truly

Oh this could be trouble
After all, after all

And I say is it a dream like it was back then
Is it a dream like it was back in the stars
Could I be so wrong? Could I be so wrong?

Chew every word to prevent what I know
From slipping right out of my fingers
Out of control, I don't know where to go
‘Cause you were my map when I found you

Oh this could get lonely
After all, after all

And I say is it a dream like it was back then
Is it a dream like it was back in the stars
Could I be so wrong? Could I be so wrong?

No one can say all the things that they feel
Without the risk of a failure
So keep in my cards close to my heart
All of you I loved from a distance

Oh this should be magic
After all, after all

I callde you because I love you so
It's reason enough it doesn't show
surely I could ask about things you have done
who am I to question you? oh, no
all I wanna hear is everythihg, alright

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

I called you because we've grown apart
this may seems absurd but I'm in the dark
and somewhere at the end of all the arapet
is the one original? oh, well
now this compensate masonic substitute

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

I will always call it's all that I can do

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

They were seen high-jacking someone's car
they drove far away
and it's in the news, the papers too
it's all around

Some of us already knew the truth
They call it salvation for the street
I'll make sure you'll come clean

It never happened before when we were playing
It's serious now, cause someone's luck runs out tonight
It's a terrible fright, yeah

Nanana...

They came here to steal the things they like:
computer equipment - mechanical stuff
cause we've have enough
we give it away

But someone left the scene of way too soon
It is tremendous in a way
We've never seen it in our street

It never happened before when we were playing
Now TV-shows - talking all they're saying now
Our luck runs out tonight

It's this simple: you believe - someone gives and you recieve
but somewhere along the way our luck ran out again

nanana...

Now they live in nevernever-land
claiming they're tourists
They light up the crowd
and don't talk so loud
anymore

But I'm sure we will see their brothers soon
Already racing to be first
They find it hard to adjust

It never happened before we have been playing
Let's do it again, forget what I've been saying now
Your luck runs out tonight

Nanana...
(Our luck runs out tonight,
Our luck ran out tonight X 4)

They were seen high-jacking someone's car
they drove far away
and it's in the news, the papers too
it's all around

Some of us already knew the truth
They call it salvation for the street
I'll make sure you'll come clean

It never happened before when we were playing
It's serious now, cause someone's luck runs out tonight
It's a terrible fright, yeah

Nanana...

They came here to steal the things they like:
computer equipment - mechanical stuff
cause we've have enough
we give it away

But someone left the scene of way too soon
It is tremendous in a way
We've never seen it in our street

It never happened before when we were playing
Now TV-shows - talking all they're saying now
Our luck runs out tonight

It's this simple: you believe - someone gives and you recieve
but somewhere along the way our luck ran out again

nanana...

Now they live in nevernever-land
claiming they're tourists
They light up the crowd
and don't talk so loud
anymore

But I'm sure we will see their brothers soon
Already racing to be first
They find it hard to adjust

It never happened before we have been playing
Let's do it again, forget what I've been saying now
Your luck runs out tonight

Nanana...
(Our luck runs out tonight,
Our luck ran out tonight X 4)

Well, it's all over now
Oh, I'm not gonna beg to differ
So unfit to be lounging with her
You've been running around now
Running around, running around

But you made your mind up
And you couldn't believe your luck now
How the chemicals combined
And still how you were running around now
Running around, running around now, now, now

So go and fake one more mistake
And choose to be so cruel
I can't defend myself against almighty moon

Oh, it's all over now
It was peachy for a while, then bitter
The start was flawless but you'll end a quitter
Always running away now
Running away, running away

When you sweat the truth out
Little something pulls you right back in trust
Little nothing's to be pulling tricks
Just to keep you running around now
Running around, running around now, now, now

So go and fake one more mistake
And choose to be so cruel
I can't defend myself against almighty moon

Wake up, wake up
You made your last mistake
The world can be so cruel
I won't abide the tide of your almighty moon

My old almighty moon
I know your tricks too well, now please

You could be sad but never torn
You saw the light when it was on
You never turned or looked away
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

Your sentences were concentrated
You made your points so understated
Where I would mumble, you would say
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

I made up conversations with my symbolic language
Saying everybody wants to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

You got the picture from the start
You saw right through me in the dark
You saw that I couldn't behave
with eyes so focused, yet so frail

I chose you from a million
You were the choice of billions
wishing they would try to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

You questioned men and called them whores
But you would never burn your bras
You held your head up in the rain
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

You had relationships that worked
and yet experience with jerks
So well adjusted, but with charm
Your eyes were focused and yet calm

I'm fairly realistic
But my thoughts are out of lip-sync
when I say that I'm not one of those
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you

I'll pass you by and fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

One hundred thousand cars have passed this house
The celebration starts with laughter

Can it be that we're not clean?
The days have turned to haze
Tell me how we should have lied
to keep away this space
To keep from snowing in
Keep from lingering
Keep our worlds apart

When it come to letting go
Let the quicksand flow
When I write it in the sand
There is something wrong

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

I leave the heat on to leave a trace
of all the things the air was filled with

All the things I never knew and all the words I know
Now they all come out too late for you to realize
Satisfy my luck
This director's cut
doesn't spare an inch

I have never seen this place and no surrounding walls
As the party turns to dust they all understand

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

One hundred thousand cars have passed this house
The celebration starts with laughter

Can it be that we're not clean?
The days have turned to haze
Tell me how we should have lied
to keep away this space
To keep from snowing in
Keep from lingering
Keep our worlds apart

When it come to letting go
Let the quicksand flow
When I write it in the sand
There is something wrong

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

I leave the heat on to leave a trace
of all the things the air was filled with

All the things I never knew and all the words I know
Now they all come out too late for you to realize
Satisfy my luck
This director's cut
doesn't spare an inch

I have never seen this place and no surrounding walls
As the party turns to dust they all understand

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

When there is light from up above
Then there will come a sacred dove
To the basement, to the basement

When there is fear you won't have to cry
Napkins are here, they'll dry your eyes
And blind them, and blind them

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

When there is greed taking control
Moving the bricks and starving the older people
Oh, people

If you seek shelter from your past
They'll come to point their fingers where you cast your shadow
Cast your shadow

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

But you
Have been fooled
You knew the rules
By heart
There is
No guarantee
Against infamy
Out there

When there is trouble on the road
Dead passengers will guide you home
They will lead you
If they can just feed you

They will come to your home
When they are here
Faces down

Popular spoons
Sweeten the swoons
You know the drill right up until
They find you don't carry their itinerary around

It's such a sad beguiling thing
You've got it bad
It's not a fling
But you can't play the part without breaking your own heart into two

Oh I've been a soldier of the purest kind you could find
I fought all the devils that wanted to change me and break me down
Don't look now
Look away

They make the rules
You don't want to sell out
You've got the tools they don't allow but
They are no boundaries just recoupable royalties and men.

The lights go out a thunder roars a silly thing
You can't ignore till you've overstayed your welcome with those who've paid for
All your dressing up

Oh I've been a soldier of the purest kind you could find
I fought and resisted back when they secused (?) me and brought me down
Don't look down
Look away

Oh can't you see there's nothing to collect
Oh but tell me what did you expect
It's so stupid and selfish all the same
And so sad you can't go again

Oh I've been a soldier of the purest kind you could find
Fought and resisted when they tried to change me around
But this just become so predictable it's hard to stay aground
Cut me some slack
Never look back
Don't look now
Look away

Is it hot in here or have I lost myself again?
Is it hot in here or is it only me?
If I leave the room maybe things will settle down
If I get back let's pretend we never met

'Cause I know I'm so easy to persuade
Why do I cling to the little that remains?
But in the end there's something you can't erase
Oh, but you know I'm so easy to persuade

Is it hot in here 'cause my pulse is running scared?
From a beating heart with something to defend
How hard can it be to tell the truth from what you're told?
Get out now while there's still some air left in the tank

'Cause I know I'm so easy to persuade
Why do I cling to the little that remains?
But in the end there's something you can't erase
Oh, you would know I'm so easy to persuade

Is it hot in here? I don't know that you would know
Oh, whatever, don't know why I even ask

'Cause you know I'm so easy to persuade
How did you know I would shoulder all the blame?
But in the end I guess some things you can't erase
Oh, but you know I'm so easy to persuade
I'm so easy to persuade, I'm so easy to persuade

Tell me that the casual panics will give in.
When I hear a scream all my friends just hear the wind.
So, if anybody could prove what god must know,
I'd tell myself the chances of suffering are slim.

Mum said, "All men must fall,"
You can't quit just to stay on your feet.
One day you'll see the blood on the floor.

So will you sweep? Will you be swept?
It's just so hard to believe there's a way out of here!

FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN AND AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

I didn't ever think I'd be sleeping with the sharks,
But everybody said I'd be perfect for that part.
So, if anybody remembers my old name,
Tell everybody that I will always be the same.

My mother spoke the truth,
She outlived all the men in the street.
Knee-high in all the blood on the floor...

It's down to this: Sink or resist;
It's getting hard to believe there's a way out of here!

FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN AND AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

I had a bad dream and as the night progressed
Drenched in silliness I watched it all unfold
Oh dear, if there is any truth to this
Somebody wake me and serve up some good white lies

I had a bad dream in which the phone would ring
And drown out everything, it kept me on my feet
But down in streets so quiet now

I can hear ticking from meters and bounce
When I fall asleep and I climb these four walls
Wake up in the middle of conference calls
But go on forever about nothing at all

Good luck, don't you feel so bad
Just don't get your hopes up
Oh, there's no reason why

I had a bad dream and as the sun came in
I threw out everything that kept me company

I held my breath to feel alive
The damage is measured against the regrets
The potential of tragedy hangs you bad threads
Strike up the banjo and sing us a song

Good luck, don't you feel so bad
Just don't get your hopes up
Oh, there's no reason why

Good luck, don't you feel so bad
Just don't get your hopes up
Luck, whether good or bad
Doesn't come from justice

Good luck, don't you feel so bad
Just don't get your hopes up
Oh, there's no reason why

Looking for something to pass on through
Searching for something to say to you
Even though everything has been said
Somehow there's still something left to add

And while the satellite's asleep
Somewhere it's midnight out there
And while I'm barking at the moon
You sing your heart out to a tune
Hoping you'll never grow old
Hoping you'll never grow old

I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind

Sifting through all the remaining files
Counting down all the remaining miles
Drifting off into a different night
Paralyzed by all the warning lights

Waking the patient satellites
Sleepy benevolent eyes
Heavily drunk on distant love
They never once misplaced a call
I hope they never grow old

I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind
I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind

Happy Birthday girl ,I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you

Tell me what you think about this song
Sue me if you reckon it's too long
I wanna know how you really feel

Tell me what you think this is funny?
Spending all my time and my money?
Trying to find how you really feel.

The radio's perfect pitch makes me nauseous ohhhh!
The dimwits are digging a ditch on my heartbeat radio

Tell me what's the deal with the static
FM has become automatic
I wanna know did the DJ drown
In a sea of reverb and compression ohhhh!
Wait till you hear the refrain on my heartbeat radio

My darling waves can be replaced
But I will remember you

I'd sell my soul for your adore (?)
Still I'm not receiving you.

Tell me why you're changing the station
What comes after heavy rotation?
I wanna know am I coming through
I wanna know what I've done to you
You're wearing out my favorite song and everyone elses ohhh!
Nothing but sad honky-tonk on my heartbeat radio

My darling waves can be replaced
But I will remember you

I sold my soul for your adore (?)
Still I'm not receiving you

Tell me what you think about this song...
Tell me what you think about this song...
Tell me what you think about this song...
Tell me what you think about this song...
Tell me what you think about
Tell me what you think about
Tell me what you think about

We laughed and cried but don't ask why
My poor heart still beats for you
Oh my heartbeat radio

My darling waves can be replaced
But I will remember you

I'd sell my soul for your adore (?)
Still I'm not receiving you
Oh my heartbeat radio
Oh my heartbeat radio

I know I was out of line
You were way out of your mind
Wrapped up in my reveries
Causing all this misery

Hear me out
If ever there's a chance in heaven
(Or in hell)
To slowly forget the past and the bandage

Be careful, you fool, there are certain rules
Even for a fellow like you
But don't be alarmed, no one gets harmed
I will never go, babe, hell no

Maybe I was in the dark
But why'd you have to steal my heart?
Well, I didn't plan to go berserk
Baby, you were such a jerk

Well just hear me out
I can't believe the things I said
(I know)
I obviously was removed from my senses

Be careful, you fool, there are certain rules
Even for a fellow like you
But don't be alarmed, no one gets harmed
I will never go, babe, hell no

Now hear me out
If ever you deceive me
(If ever, ever?)
We're through
You worry too much, I won't make you sorry

Be careful you fool, there are certain rules
Even for a fellow like you
But don't be alarmed, no one gets harmed
I will never go, babe, hell no

Be careful you fool
(Don't be alarmed)
There are certain rules
('Cause I know that)
I will never go, babe, hell no

I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me
Oh darling how I miss you
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness
I crave the silhouette of your kiss
With only the blue light of the tv on
Lip reading threats and false alarms
There's a boy somewhere holding hands with himself
And a girl in a window on the reeperbarn

Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands

With the kings and queens of the dance hall craze
Checkmate in three moves in your heyday
But the girls don't listen to your line anymore
Now you're part of someone else
On the factory floor and you still say "where's the action?"
Now you manufacture happiness
And get sold on the cheap for someone's satisfaction

Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands

All you toy soldiers and scaremongers
Are you living in this world sometimes I wonder
In between saying you've seen too much and saying you've seen it all before

Tighter and tighter I hold you tightly
You know I love you more than slightly
Although I've never said it like this before

Whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt
That it's you that I'm dreaming about
Do I have to draw you a diagram?
All I ever want is just to fall into your human hands

"You better know by now,"
she said
I made no effort to
defend myself against her claim
There wasn't anything to add
And so I blurted out
"I guess it's gonna rain today."

What a silly thing to put you through
I know better
Lost for words because I'm losing you
Didn't I promise you
I knew better

Hurry home before the sky
Breaks out
You can't predict
Things that happen all the time
Hurry back
Don't take my word
For it babe
I don't know
But I guess
It's gonna rain today
I don't know
But I guess
It's gonna rain today

She said to get the hell away
And left me standing
in the doorway
like a tired cliche
I thought I had it all pinned down
Now I'm the guy
who said,
"I guess it's gonna rain today."

Oh the fine line between
Street smartness
And a smart ass
Oh the skipping beats of confidence
And the drum roll
That you thought you could play

Hurry home before the sky
Breaks out
No point predicting
Things that happen all the time
Hurry back
Don't take my word
For it babe
I don't know
But I guess
It's gonna rain today
I don't know
But I guess
It's gonna rain today


But I'm sure that you've known this
All along
Oh, I'm sure that you've known this
All along

You who attacked my old heart with a glance
And you placed it with something new
You ran away as the pendulum swung
I had only begun

I'll be OK
I'll be OK

You who replaced every beat that was false
And uptight like a metronome
You should've stayed 'cause that winter was long
But by dawn you were gone

I'll be OK
I'll be OK

You who resigned when I finally decided
That I was alive

I'll be OK
I'll be OK

I'll be OK
I'll be OK

My baby's building a sand castle
And someday we're gonna live on the shores
But now a days we just hold our breath
Until the meeting next Monday

And it's going through the roof
We're blowing through the roof
If only you guys could see us

Me and my baby, we bicker
But I know the talented devil inside
And so we bond over raising toasts
Two absent minds who paint the sky
Two absent minds expecting to fly

My baby does tend to contradict
It's only natural

That it's going through the roof
B-blowing through the roof
If only you guys could see that
I'm giving you the proof
I'm telling you the truth
They were gonna call tomorrow

Two absent minds expecting to fly

My baby knows how the world goes around
We'll jump the rails and abandon this town
Sometimes I blush when imaging
How big it's gonna be really, really

Blowing through the roof
We're going through the roof
If only the world would follow
I'm giving you the proof
What do I have to do
To make sure you all believe us?

If only you guys could see us now

I was floating on a stream
Words came easy as the seemed
And as conversations go
I let this one go off enough
Tonight I'll just sit here on my back

When you're applauding your fine mind
Darker corners come to shine
The quality control I run
The filters that I use
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten

But I think you're in my soul

And it warms me to know
that you'll still be in charge of the heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

Yes it warms me to know
that I'll still be in charge of your heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
Such are things we both know
and we think we should say
just to organize the stains
Systems reveal their construction these days
as we escape to drift further away
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't tell you anything you wouldn't know
So nothing has been lost

It's not over at all
If my thoughts could be here
they'd advise you to leave
It's not easy, I know
making hard things look small
But we're dying to try
You have revealed your conclusion by chance
I have replaced you at little expense
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't think of anything I haven't told
Still, nothing has been lost

When you could use the words reserved for a sad song
You'll find you've spent them up on God and everyone
Like anyone before

It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
It's not over
but oh, if my thoughts could be here
They'd advise you to leave
We will be cold where the lights are all out
but at least we can think without reason or doubt
I don't know much about this world
but I can tell you one thing as I pass you by
Nothing has been lost

Let it go, everyone's bound to know that I've lost you again
This time you wound up with someone else
Your own will let me down

Put your arms around me
for the first and last time
and say sincerely that you'll keep me in mind

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind

I try to set an example for all of those who blame their luck
You seem to know where you're heading now
I know this and that's not much

Tell me all the things that you never dared to say
Say you're glad you told me
that he isn't going to stay

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

If you are to change your mind
Don't think I'll forget where I have been
I'll stay 'till this torment's over
and I know not where I'm going
Make
It
Easy
On
Me
Please

I have no choice but to let it go
'though I know you'll still be here
But I'll never know you the way he does
Let me know if I will

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

Do you have enough to fill a page?
Is there something I should read,
Amplifiers broke the news today,
I was whispering the details

When the world came in
I've seen it before
wearing shimmering clothes
Is the world worth it's spending?
Is that world worth one defending it?

How should I know?
When the phone attacks with numbers I dont trust

(Chorus)
John, Let me go!
I can't conjugate myself
If investigation fails
I'm on my own (my head will roll)

When the coward sits alone again
When you've spent your feathers up(up)
Making sense is made impossible
Making you detect my aim - uh?

When I'm answering
I've seen this before
You are changing things
In a would full of sorrow
Only fools with narrow minds can join

How could I know?
The calls I make've number I dont trust

(Chorus)

Do you have enough to fill a page?
Is there something I should read,
Amplifiers broke the news today,
I was whispering the details

When the world came in
I've seen it before
wearing shimmering clothes
Is the world worth it's spending?
Is that world worth one defending it?

How should I know?
When the phone attacks with numbers I dont trust

(Chorus)
John, Let me go!
I can't conjugate myself
If investigation fails
I'm on my own (my head will roll)

When the coward sits alone again
When you've spent your feathers up(up)
Making sense is made impossible
Making you detect my aim - uh?

When I'm answering
I've seen this before
You are changing things
In a would full of sorrow
Only fools with narrow minds can join

How could I know?
The calls I make've number I dont trust

(Chorus)

When people keeping
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

When everything feels all over
When everybody seems unkind
I bring you a four leaf clover
Take all the worry out of your mind

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

I have the only key to your heart
I can stop you falling apart
Try today, you'll find this way
Come on and give me a chance to say
Let my love open the door
It's all I'm living for
Release yourself from misery
There's only one thing gonna set you free
That's my love

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door


When tragedy befalls you
Don't let it drag you down
Love can cure your problems
You're so lucky I'm around

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

It's a travesty, where do I begin?
The ways in which I have behaved
I'm glad no one was keeping track of me

Like a tambourine, driven by the beat
I forgot what time it was
I wish someone were looking out for me

Some of you may think
That I regret some of my doings
I'd do it all again if I had the chance

Just like Lazenby can I do it over?
Don't I get a second try?
Every time I messed up my lines and stumbled
Just like Lazenby

Like the swirling sun I haven't burned out
It's better to etcetera
I won't bore you with these things we tend to say

Like a fairytale with blood on every page
My failures brought about some blessings
Someone must be watching over me

Even though I wonder
Why I did some of my doings
I'd do it all again if I had the change

Just like Lazenby can I do it over?
Don't I get a second try?
Every time I messed up my lines and stumbled
Just like Lazenby

Just like Lazenby, just like Lazenby
Burning every bridge
Endless opportunities I squandered
On the way to this event

Just like Lazenby can I do it over?
Don't I get a second try?
Every time I messed up my lines and stumbled
And reluctantly begged forgiveness just like Lazenby

You have been waiting all your life
You use your patience to stay fine
Time moves on as you prepare
to tell yourself be reasonable
Then come the times you can't foresee
you cannot leave, you can't release
to keep you far from those dreams
Ignoring the right times
Oh, waiting was my life

For now it's too late
for you may not wait
and things that I have yet to know
vanish before they're complete
I may turn around
to see if you're still there
but as for now, it's just not safe
Maybe you'll wait for me
Maybe you're gone

You've been preparing all your life
You've had some trouble getting it right
And you try to tell yourself it may work, as it should
But something good can do much harm
The good may kill for your embrace
to keep you far from those dreams
you know you cannot dream
I'm stuck for now, it seems

The moment has come to face the truth
I'm wide awake and so are you
Do you have a clue what this is (I don't know)
Are you everything that I've missed? (I don't hope so)
We'll just have to wait and see (wait and see)
If things go right, we're meant to be

The surface is gone. I scratched it off
We made some plans. I let them go
Do you have the slightest idea (No I don't)
Why the world is bright when you're near
Stay awhile and wait and see (wait and see)
If things go right, we're meant to be

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
this is how its meant to be

The time is here for being straight
Its not too early and never too late
People say I should watch my pace (What do they know?)

my hand are shakin
from carryin this torch
from carryin this torch for you

my lips are bleeding
from kissin you goodbye
from kissin you goodbye every night

my sheets are tearin
from sleepin in too long
from sleepin in too long with you

my hands are shakin
from carryin this torch
from carryin this torch for you

my head is where
it's always been
if only i'd know where

my feet can't stand
that ground no more
it seems that i don't care

my hands are shakin
from carryin this torch
from carryin this torch for you

my lips are bleeding
from kissin you goodbye
from kissin you goodbye every night

my heart is poundin
yes yes yes
my mind just second guess
my love is so
articulate
but i am such a mess

my hand are shakin
from carryin this torch
from carryin this torch for you

my lips are bleeding
from kissin you goodnight
oh kisses you goodbye it's all that i do

my sheets are tearin
from sleepin in too long
from sleepin in too long with you

my hands are shakin
from carryin this torch
from carryin this torch for you

I've come to fill you up
I've come to taste the price I'll pay
I've come to leave a note
I've come to see you on and off again

There have been tragic affairs
Ever so unreliable
And I could just see through
these fingers and give it one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I've changed, become another
The one you used to stalk is real
I've come to make it better
I've come to see you through the end again

And all the rumours in this house
Ever so unreliable
I would neglect them
If only lies gave us one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I've come to know the reasons
I've come to realize the truth
'Cause though I leave he waiting
She knows I'll turn against myself again

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I am so amazed I am so amazed
That nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same

If that's a tear I see
If it's because of me
Then I may well have to
tell you what I would do
But to play is easier than to set the groove
And to think is more simple than changing the mood
Is it more, is it less?
What's that thing on your chest?
Won't you whisper your blues as heartfelt as you can?

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

If I translate you wrong
when I complete your song
That would be my two feet
stumbling ahead of me
I could tell you the tricks that I think hurt you best
About the house packed with people and their loneliness
But the hour is so late
Take some weight off your chest
Let's just pray for our fates and then give it a rest

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

Go get yourself up straight
I'll throw a melody
That is as serious as it is simple

On the tower
On the tower
On the tower
Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

Honestly isn't it enough?
Everytime you cross the red line
My tracks go tangling
Anyway where did you become
Such a sneaky perpetrator
Strangely rebellious

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?

Anyway can you not recall
Feeling every generous trust
As I was petrified
Honestly get it off your chest
Each and every sonnet you sing
Makes me want to scream and stuff

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?
Isn't there always something
Shaking the ground breaking things
If it's all the same to you
I'd rather just...

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
You don't want to feel the phantom punch
You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?

This could be asking for more than I merit
This could be testing your patience
I really don't have a whole lot to draw from
But I'd be willing to learn, only

Don't expect too much style and finesse
But don't be surprised if I impress
I say this even though
I'm almost sure by now you know

I say this even though
I'm almost sure by now you know

Last stop
Montauk
Try to get
Back on track
No vacation
Don't give up
Just don't look back
If you're looking for an answer, dig in
I have said too much already
I cannot win
This could go on for forever on end
Theres nowhere to turn
Nowhere to begin this isn't a joke it's merely a sin

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle
Our night's too short to say it all
Play it again and say it all
You know the punch line
It's all in the punchline

Pale wind blowing
Cutting right
To the core
You're so patient
When the wreck washed ashore
If you ever need forgiveness, I give
I have done so many incomprehensible things
This could go on for forever on end
Theres nowhere to run
Nowhere to escape
Don't tell me you knew until we awake

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle

Our night's too short to say it all
Play it again and say it all
Do you know the punchline?
It's all in the punchline

Now and again we can leave it all behind
Now and again we can leave it all behind

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle
Our night's too short to play it all
Say it again and play it all
You know the punchline
It's all in the punchline

I said a little
The rest is a riddle
You know the punchline
It's all in the punchline

I said a little the rest is a riddle
you know the punchline, it's all in the punchline

All the girls that I know suddenly seem so-so
Suddenly no one quite can compare to her
Why? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
What is a guy to contribute?

All the girls my own age have me turning the page
They're so eager to try
She don't do nothing
Why? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
What is a guy to contribute?

Just like in that old movie about Carlotta's spell
I feel obsessed like Scottie felt
minus the drama and the fraud
I hope I got to get into her way
Out of my way

All the girls in this room sure look pretty and groomed
but I must let you down
She's ahead of you
How? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
Honestly, what can I contribute?

Just like in that old movie about Rebecca's spell
I feel like Max never felt
minus the drama and the fraud
I hope I got to get into her way
Out of my way

Late at night when I dream about girls that I've seen
very few reach beyond my eyes after I'm gone

No one makes me so weak
and appears so unique
In a cluster of freak
she is all that I seek

No one makes me confused
and so certain I'd lose
I’m battered and bruised
I’m disheveled but true

Everything is a blur
Everything is a blur
None of this would occur
if it wasn't for her
She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
Honestly, what can I contribute?

Who wants to know about these tortured souls?
Side two was about the tortured young and old
Side two will show you how it's meant to be
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you how it's meant to be

We're dying now
He helps us out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to know the names of those
who lived through execution, collecting votes?
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you things aren't what they seem

We're dying now
He helps you out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to know about all those
who placed their voices in a killing force?
Side two was about the tortured young and old

Ask me anything you like
I'll reveal everything
I will treasure the truth
You could know anything
I am but a fool to play unaware of things
If I'd treasured the truth
I would tell it to you
I'm coming down to tell you what I know
To say what's real, to let you know
Where I have been and how I had to

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

Am I likely to succeed with the way things are?
Judging by your smile
You are holding something back
I'm sleepless around midnight
There's a change in the wind
The remembrance of things you used to hold back
I come around each time your notes are high
To tear you down and drag you up
To let you know what's going on while I

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

All alone in pink
All the carpets fade to grey
Amplifiers burst out the deal that I have made
What's there to say I cannot say by myself?

Thinking about writing it down seems pretentious
And helplessness may be the word they nail to my name
In a while

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

All embarrassment
In addition to the talk
In each crowded court there's a spot where I fall in love and short
on public demand
There are no words they can't hear

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

I think I forced a smile upon her mouth
I know I dreamt that, hollowness aside
everyone's a winner if the stadium is right
But rarely anything good comes out

Oh yo!
Memory!
Must you bring up these things?
Only stupid words
Make me forget all of that
Stupid memory
Can I forget all that crap?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?

I heard him yell something
It shouldn't be this bad
He's spitting as he says Hi
I catch fire
So fortunate for you
You were free to choose
That's not enough to keep me from yelling

She shivers at her desk
As he yells 12 PM
But no one's running late
They're all airheads
Cause he is on the move
And these virgins talk about groove
And make it sound so credible

Oh tonight's suffused with love

Don't spend all your time
It's only hit and run
Why spend all your time
making someone else's dream?

You always meet these girls
Penetrating eyes
And tentatively I require names
But he is on their minds
Young, lost occupied time
vanishes, unfortunately

Can I have learned eyes?
I knew you'd hesitate
I pictured this unfortunately, no
We haven't got the time
for he is in our minds
Just about enough to keep me on the outside

Is tonight suffused with love?

Don't spend all your time
It's only hit and run
Why spend all your time
making someone else's dream?

Now they're calling for the second time today
Asking for to borrow those two tapes again
Is it really worth the struggle of covering up?

On the brink and learning how to live with it
Got experience from method toting deep within
And they say it's so inflammable
Am I caught in a trap
with all the remains of a letdown?
All the remains of a letdown

Speak out if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone died at a screening downtown of a tape
of a tape

Now they're running round drawing circles and
Living up to everything you think of them
Such a senseless slender guy
and his greater half

On a mission for the local government
Looking for a tape that's gonna pay the rent
And they say it's so inflammable
The cats will whine the dogs will itch
So bury the beat and forget them
Raise the remains of a letdown

Speak out if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone cried at a screening
Downtown of a tape
Of a tape

Ok

Now it's coming out
the story we all knew
In equal parts all
that you did and that you didn't do
Was it really worth the struggle of covering up?

Leave it playing till it spells the ending back
Is this what happens if you suffer like a cardiac?
Will you beg to be
excused for always dumbing down
Or wrenching up
Now all that's left is a letdown
The view in reverse of a letdown

Speak up if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone died at a screening
Downtown of a tape, of a tape

I find it hard, hard to let go
And you are entitled to know
You have brought nothing else but bliss
A great deal of frustration
Voluntary occupation
Driving me insane and off the wall

And we were free to choose each other
Now it seems like something other
Have you placed me where I stand?
We turned caring, like a mother
Afraid to lose each other
It got us this far
Now problems are:

I have no bags to pack
No suitcase waiting in the hall
You have no make-up
No stockings in my drawer
Oh, how did we forget?
Could we forget?
It's easy to learn if you never regret

When you live in paranoia
And you know she's got you, oh yeah
You can't leave until you know the truth
So for months you're going nowhere
Until you seize the day and place yourself
Behind the steering wheel

Oh you can't act like you don't want to
The opposite of what you planned to
You can watch the ships when they're abroad
Become a joke when people see you
'Cause it's enough to please you
We got this far
Step out of the car

I have no bags to pack
No suitcase waiting in the hall
You have no make-up
No stockings in my drawer
Oh, how did we forget?
Could we forget?
It's easy to learn if you never regret

We'll never learn in the future
This is it, seemingly I am sure
I know we haven't been together now
It wasn't meant to be this way
So we'll give it days and days
And we'll try to make it easy now

Once I believed we could approach this
Now I have faith placed in the things you call fate
In the things you call fate
In the things you call fate

I'm not gonna say
do you ever stop to think along the way
but baby be prepared to be suprised
better be prepared to be suprised
baby be prepared to be suprised

it's all I know

I'm not gonna state
obvious observations everybody makes
but baby be prepared to be suprised
better be prepared to be suprised
baby be prepared to be suprised

it's all I know

the weight of the world
and the hurt
and the dirt
can make you disturbed
but I heard
but I heard
when I wrap my arms around you
every mistake we made crumbles
when I wrap my arms around you
everything echoes a new song

I'm not gonna whine
to scream "I'm so tired" through a mic
baby be prepared to be suprised
better be prepared to be suprised
baby be prepared to be suprised

it's all I know

the weight of the world
and the hurt
and the dirt
can make you disturbed
but I heard
but I heard
when I wrap my arms around you
every mistake we make crumbles
when I wrap my arms around you
everything echoes a new song

I'm not gonna lie
saying everyone will be all right
and fine until we die
what else can you do but
hope and pray and say that we'll get by

be prepared to be suprised
better be prepared to be suprised
baby be prepared to be suprised
better be prepared to be suprised

Down came the sky
And all you did was blink
I would cry like I never do
In order to stay true
But everybody has their own opinion on such
They're all much alike alike alike
One hundred of a million is worth penning dead down
So why am I writing to the moon?

Down came the sky
to whack us to attack
While we cried in-between our cheeks
I was red and bleak
We often joke it's over but it's never enough
I take it you are afraid afraid
of everything I am and of some things I am not
A fear I share before I go to bed

When tears are pretzels pouring down each time the sweetness is returning
at times when you appreciate that you survived

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

Down came the sky
And everything went black
I saw you, you saw me
And you were naked, which was weird
But in that space in time we played the strangers again
In oceans of oh I see I see
When my words lost their meaning on their way to your door
yours lost their way out of your

I don't want to want you to go
But I think you've left me without options
Things that you should know by now
That I never told

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

Here's a man, his own tragic mirror
capable of such crimes he is scared
to look at himself too long at a time.
Here's a man, his own wrapped up worry
thinking he will do wrong very shortly.
The answer remains locked up in his head.

And charity plays a game with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now
and charity plays away with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now.
Somehow you've got to smarten up
and act like nothing's ever gonna break you
break you, break your mirror in two.

Here's a man aware of his defects
such a sensitive soul such a rebel
capable of detecting his flaws.
Here's a man self righteous, self pitying
nursing losses and pain and inflicting guilt
that should keep them busy for days.

And charity plays a game with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now
and vanity takes your dog for a walk
it gets to you now, it gets to you now.
Somehow youve got to smarten up
and act like nothing's ever gonna
break you, break you, break your mirror in two.

Here's a man really worth the attention
so mature but so dumb.
In broad daylight the answer remains locked up in his head
it's blowing around somewhere in his head.

Ma
All the other options that you had in mind stun me
'Cause I'm optionless and turkey-free and blind

Pa
Won't you listen and I'll let you in on this
Blind me
Won't you listen and I'll reduce advice to dust
Oh no
I shouldn't have to spell my name

Ma
If it's worth the made up smiles, the quiet fights
Oh, mother
It is hard not to look in the mirror's eye
I have come to this while you have come along
So it's alright if you change your mind the other way around again
I shouldn't have to spell my name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme

We
We can't reclaim the shirts we threw away last twirl
Uncurl the note-in-pocket, personal brochures that dust
Machine-washed, that's how paper rusts

Days you spend wanting some of Michael Landon's grace
strike back, now they shape your life as stony as his face
Oh no
I shouldn't have to spell his name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

We were chasing rabbits on the hill
Oh that prairie-life was great, but never real
'Cause we never saw no rabbits out there, ever, no, not once
All we did was put a fire up and watch it burn for months
I miss the sound of stairs and walls and maladjusted doors
and too little space for holding all the soldiers and the war

Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

Summer killed the ones you loved
I hesitate and tell you
When people leave without goodbye
I lose another brick
The buildings are tall
the world explains all
and here I stand and face myself:
I lead the way for us

I've frozen down my memory
It's morning when she gets up
She puts on Lionel Ritchie
I've already had enough
The queues are long
Guess I am wrong
This chemical environment is getting out of hand

Virtue and wine cannot help you swim
Pain and sorrow must come
if you go

It's the chemistry and the things we shouldn't do
I am nothing without you

Ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba

Wet ground and the snow is still not falling
Circumstances are alarming, darling
The future's just a word, that's how I recall it
The past is much more present in our yawning

But I heard you right
Something was lost from the start
Oh babe, what should we do, what should we say?
Should we give it away?

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly, it seems to me, I'm subject to a joke
And it's not a test
It's not a test

Wet ground and the stars are still out shining
Neon lights were never oh so blinding
Prosecute the ones who stand accused and
Let the others go and leave them dying

But I heard you right
Everything was here before
We shouldn't add or put away a thing
Let nobody win

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly, it seems to me, I'm subject to a joke
It's not a sin
It's not a sin

You be words, and I'll be music
Ain't you heard, that's how they do it?
You're a poem when you're on your own
I'll try not to get in your way
But I've all the poems I have known, baby, you give me something to say

I'll be words, and you'll be music
I concur, I can't refuse it
You're a sad little tune by yourself
So lovely I wanna sing along
If there's one thing I know I can tell, when we get together we're a song

Whenever I'm with you it's true it's
Everything you say and do it's
Words & music, you & I

Listen here, I've gotta say it
It's so clear, the way we should play it
I will carry you, together we'll float through the sky
We can marry too, together just look at us fly

Whenever I'm with you it's true it's
Everything you say and do it's
Words & music, you & I

When we fight it's rock & roll
When we make it up, it's soul
And in the meanwhile, freestyle, play-by-ear, improvise
It's clear we go together, it's been like this forever
You & I and words & music

Whenever I'm with you it's true it's
Everything you say and do it's true
You and I are, you and I are
You and I are words & music


You be words, and I'll be music
Ain't you heard, that's how they do it?
You're a poem when you're on your own

Use every chance you've been given
She replied after several days
It's no good to be perfect
You know so well things are easy to tell
There is one thing I know
It goes like this
It's that when I'm down and out, it's you I miss

I have told you this before
And my transparent mind
Won't cover see-through hearts
I'll be straight with you now
Now I'm not what you want
Just like the rest
And you feel like you're subject to a test
But if there's one thing I know it's this
When I lose my sleep it's you I miss

You sleep all night
You know you lie awake
Tell me, yeah
And time is running out
And you know so well
It may never be

Use every chance you've been given
She is told, but it doesn't make her smile
She has no need to be perfect
She knows too well
Things are easy to tell
I have said what I thought you should know
But you never seem to recognize my face